Re: High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver. - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Marc
Subject Re: High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.
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Msg-id 9662496504062909172bf8034b@mail.gmail.com
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In response to High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.  (eleven@ludojad.itpp.pl)
Responses Re: High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:55:37 +0200, eleven@ludojad.itpp.pl
<eleven@ludojad.itpp.pl> wrote:

> Performance issue, I'm experiencing here, is somewhat
> weird - server gets high average load (from 5 up to 15,
> 8 on average). Standard performance monitoring
> utilities (like top) show that CPUs are not loaded
> (below 20%, often near zero).

So ... you never actually say what the performance issue you
experience is.  Having a high load average is not necessarily a
performance issue.

What is it that you want to fix?

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